On Monday, July 21, 2003 7:16 PM, Jon Hanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > eBook, e-mail, eBay, e-money, and all that gunk. > > I suppose we could do without them. Even Apple's > > gone weird about it. I don't know what the "i" in > > the iLifestyle suite (iChat, iPhoto, iBook, > > iThis, iThat) means. > > e-jit, iDiot, iMbecile. Is it still a newgroup to discuss about the correct way to write a language? I thought that Unicode members had more consideration for the correct spelling and pronunciation of languages, and thought it was important to preserve the cultural heritage and accuracy of their transcription. Would Unicode turn into Unilang? Thanks then we do not need Unicode to write English... Why not returning then to the good old age of ISO646 (IA5)? I'm not sure that even all English users appreciate the computer related jargon and acronyms that their geek developers want to force them to learn and use. Technical jargons exist in all humane activity, but when this technology is now widely spread to target "normal" users (even commercially) why such a word would have to ignore more general linguistic communities? You don't need to be a PhD in Computer Sciences to use a computer. Now the email technology is so common that it can merit a common name using the normal phonetic, orthographic, semantical, lexical or grammatic rules of a normal social language. -- Philippe. Spams non tol�r�s: tout message non sollicit� sera rapport� � vos fournisseurs de services Internet.
